NEWSFLASH: ILA, USMX reach tentative agreement on 6-year contract

Saturday, February 02, 2013

The International Longshoremen's Association and U.S. Maritime Alliance have reached a tentative agreement for a new six-year master contract. George H. Cohen, director of the U.S. Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which had been assisting the two sides in contract talks said "the tentative agreement is subject to the ratification procedures of both parties and, as well, to agreements being achieved in a number of local union negotiations." In a press release issued late Friday night, Cohen said "Those local negotiations are ongoing and will continue without interruption to any port operation. Out of respect for the parties’ ratification processes, and consistent with the Agency’s long-standing confi...